xiii, 353 pages : 22 cm

Fetterman's folly : the true story of the tragic Fort Phil Kearny Disaster -- The wagon box fight : thirty-two against three thousand, Sergt. Sam Gibson's experience -- The "island of death" : Forsyth's scouts in the Beecher Island Battle, as experience by Scout Sigmund Shlesinger -- The rescue of Forsyth's scouts by Col. L.H. Carpenter, 10th cavalry -- The "dull knife" outbreak of the northern Cheyennes at Fort Robinson, Nebr. 1879 -- The Modoc Indian War of 1873 : how Tobey Riddle, Modoc Indian heroine, saved the lives of the peace commissioners -- The Sioux ghost dance trouble at Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, 1890 -- The "buffalo wallow" fight of 1874 : honors for Scout Billy Dixon -- Major Frank North's famous "Pawnee Scouts" batallion -- "California Joe" (Moses Milner), noted scout and guide for Custer, 1868 -- History of the famous "Pony Express" -- "Little Bat" (Baptiste Garnier) : noted scout, guide, hunter, trailer, 1876 -- The story of Old Fort Pease -- An unequal duel : a true story of a northern Cheyenne Indiana fanaticism -- The history of Bent's Old Fort, Colorado, in early wild western days -- Jim Bridger : greatest of plainsmen between 1825 and 1870 -- "Clamity Jane" (Martha Canary) : romantic Black Hills figure

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